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Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea..

Expressman :: Expressman (n.) A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon..

Pondweed :: Pondweed (n.) Any aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton, of which many species are found in ponds or slow-moving rivers..

Outfall :: Outfall (n.) The mouth of a river; the lower end of a water course; the open end of a drain, culvert, etc., where the discharge occurs..

Small :: Small (superl.) Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river..

Sleetch :: Sleetch (n.) Mud or slime, such as that at the bottom of rivers..

Crownwork :: Crownwork (n.) A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank..

Stakehead :: Stake-driver (n.) The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen..

Bubbler :: Bubbler (n.) A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes.

Run :: Run (v. i.) To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood..

Muskellunge :: Muskellunge (n.) A large American pike (Esox nobilitor) found in the Great Lakes, and other Northern lakes, and in the St. Lawrence River. It is valued as a food fish..

Mahout :: Mahout (n.) The keeper and driver of an elephant.

Blueback :: Blueback (n.) An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife..

Potamology :: Potamology (n.) A scientific account or discussion of rivers; a treatise on rivers; potamography.

Pull :: Pull (n.) The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river..

Haven :: Haven (n.) A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; a port..

Spanker :: Spanker (n.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail..

Ghaut :: Ghaut (n.) Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf.

Break :: Break (v. t.) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind..

Fluvial :: Fluvial (a.) Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant..

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